an awesome error

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 11, 2008 | Updated: Sep 11, 2008 | Category: Django Geek Humor

me: "invalid literal for INT() with base 10: ''"
me: wth kind of error is that??!!?
coworker: an awesome one!
coworker: as if we would be using anything other than base 10
me: I've worked hard my whole life to be able to create errors as ...

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My super-lame DjangoCon 2008 wrap-up

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 09, 2008 | Updated: Sep 10, 2008 | Category: Django DjangoCon

So many other people have so much more to say about DjangoCon than I will, I'm afraid. While everyone else was busy liveblogging the thing, I was actually present, paying attention, being 'in the now'. So I didn't take notes for later, but I do have a lot of ...

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I believe the question of a mascot for Django has been answered

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 09, 2008 | Updated: Sep 10, 2008 | Category: Django Geek Humor

Take that, Cal Henderson!

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DjangoCon ... the official wrap-up post will have to wait until later

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 07, 2008 | Updated: Sep 09, 2008 | Category: Django

I went, and it was awesome. Got to meet lots of wonderful people (and finally got to put faces to a lot of familiar names). Got exposure to a lot of great work that other people are doing in (and for) Django. But I am one tired chickadee now. (Okay, ...

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Custom template tags in Django

Posted by: barbara | Date: Aug 15, 2008 | Updated: Sep 09, 2008 | Category: Django

In various places in my project's site navigation, I need to be able to include dynamic content. For example, there will be a sidebar on the left that should always show a list of categories, with each one linking to its respective category page. A pretty common need on most ...

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